Daily Press -- A Glouscester native has been killed in Iraq, the Department of Defense announced Sunday.

Sgt. Mason L. Lewis, 26, died in Baghdad on Friday as a result of a noncombat related training accident. He was assigned to the 26th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.

He had always wanted to be in the Army and as a boy he dreamed of one day being promoted to sergeant, his mother, Lisa Lewis, said. "I've always been proud of my son. I'm proud of the man he became," she said

Lewis was in Baghdad training Iraqi troops. "And making friends when he died serving his country," she added. "His battalion commander called me today and said he had touched many lives out there. He had many friends... he even had Iraqi friends.

This was Lewis' second deployment to Iraq.

Army Sgt. Mason L. Lewis died in a training accident in Iraq on 11/16/07.